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Professor John Dupré delivered a keynote speech at a conference at the Science Museum in London last Friday. The conference, organised by the London Consortium, brought together the Science Museum, Tate Modern, the Wellcome Trust and Birkbeck, University of London, to reconsider the divide between art and science.

Researchers have linked the radical transformation of desert locusts—from harmless, solitary creatures to gregarious, swarm-forming insects—to the common brain chemical serotonin. This discovery, detailed in the 30 January issue of Science, illuminates a mechanism within these desert locusts that initiates their switch from aversion to attraction, and may open the door to new methods of pest control.

This booklet, created by Science in partnership with the L’Oréal Corporate Foundation, brings to the reader a collection of truly inspirational stories from women in all walks of life whose common passion is science.

When the first class of AAAS Science & Engineering Policy Fellows arrived on Capitol Hill in 1973, members of Congress and their staffs were not exactly sure how the group of seven young scientists would fit into the work of the legislative branch of government.